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Rapid melt of New Zealand glaciers ends hikes onto them
New Zealand
Tour operators stopped taking guided hikes onto the Franz Josef in 2012 and the nearby Fox in 2014.
A 2014 paper published in the journal Global and Planetary Change concluded the two glaciers have each melted by 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) in length since the 1800s, making them about 20 percent shorter.[1] The glaciers have recently been melting at a faster pace than ever previously recorded, the authors said